Congress
The number of members in the House of Representatives
What is 435
A role played by a representative who votes the way their constituents want despite their personal opinions
What is a delegate?
What is a standing committee?
The illegal practice of drawing districts with unequal populations
What is malapportionment?
The first female Speaker of the House
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
The only position in the House specifically called for by the Constitution
What is the Speaker of the House
A member who communicates within the party and keeps track of how its members are voting
What is a whip?
The person currently holding office
What is the incumbent?
The practice of drawing districts to produce a certain outcome, often "cracking and packing" groups
What is gerrymandering?
Current (Nov 7, 2018) member of Congress that is third in line for the presidency
Who is Paul Ryan?
A role played by a representative who listens to constituents opinions but ultimately votes based off their own opinion
What is a trustee?
The most powerful member of the Senate and the second most powerful member of the House- a member of the majority party
What is a majority leader?
The petition which gives a majority of the House the authority to bring an issue to the floor in the face of committee inaction
What is a discharge petition?
The act that made gerrymandering to dilute minority strength illegal
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
What is zero?
Vote trading- supporting a colleagues bill with the promise they will do the same in the future
In a Senate vote that ends in a tie, the person that will cast the tiebreaking vote
A procedure which allows for the House to deliberate within a lower quorum and expedite the consideration of an amendment or bill
What is the Committee of the Whole?
The length of terms in the House of Representatives
What is two years?
The current majority leader of the Senate, and the state they represent
Who is Mitch McConnell of Kentucky?
The part of the constitution where one can find the powers of Congress
What is Article I, Section VIII?
Political condition in which different parties control the Presidency and at least one house of Congress
What is a divided government?
A process by which the president usually allows senators to block a judicial nomination in the state they are from by registering their objection
What is senatorial courtesy?
The time at which seats in the house are reapportioned based off of states populations
What is the decennial census?
The first ten amendments to the constitution and what they ensure
What is the Bill of Rights?
1: Freedom of the press, assembly, speech, religion
2: Right to bear arms
3: Anti-quartering
4: Anti-unreasonable search and seizure
5: Ensures due process, protects from double jeopardy and self-incrimination
6: Ensures the rights of the defendant in a trial
7: Right to a jury
8: Protects against cruel and unusual punishment
9: Fundamental rights exist outside the constitution
10: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people